You’re probably at uni with an ultimate aim to build your future career.

However, with an overload of lectures, readings, assessments and the like, you may find it easy to get caught up in the study haze and forget about the bigger picture.

We’re here to help keep you on track and ensure you develop the skills you’ll require for the future workforce.

We’ve created an Academic Skills Workbook to smooth the road for your success as you move toward your exciting future careers. It is designed to help you develop and apply academic, information and digital literacy skills.

As you work through the Academic Skills Workbook, you’ll also have the opportunity to incorporate the skills you’ve developed into an ePortfolio. This means you can document your credentials and skills online. You can even create folios targeted to particular audiences, such as employers, to showcase your skills.

If you’re a commencing student, you’ll probably want to start at the beginning and work through the contents. Continuing students, you may like to jump to specific areas to revise and further develop your skills.

The Academic Skills Workbook is accessible via PebblePad. You can view our online guides if you need any help in getting started using PebblePad.

If you’re graduating this trimester, we bet you’re pretty stoked! Let us start by saying: congratulations! You did it! Those years of hard work, study, red-bull/coffee fuelled nights working on assignments and those awful 8 am lectures are now over.

You’ll probably have some big celebrations to tend to. But once that’s calmed down, you may wonder what happens to your Griffith access once you’ve spread your wings.

Let us give you the lowdown:

Griffith computers and Wi Fi

Your access to our computers and Wi Fi is based upon what’s called your ‘affiliation’. From the day you graduate, you’ll no longer be affiliated as a student, and therefore will not have an active student account. This means you’ll no longer be able to log on to our computers or use our WiFi.

H Drive

Just like your access to our computers, you’ll lose access to your H Drive following graduation, so make sure you save a copy of anything important beforehand! Content will remain on your H Drive however, so if you’re planning to come back to do some post-grad study, no need to worry about your H Drive being wiped!

Student mail and Google Drive

Student mail and Google Drive

You retain access to your Student Gmail and Google Drive after you graduate*. Don’t get caught out though – we still require you to update your password every six months (IT security is important, guys!). If you forget to do this you won’t be able to log in, however it’s an easy fix – visit our Passwords webpage to reset your password.

Learning@Griffith and myGriffith

You’ll retain access to myGriffith for life, so you can log back in at any time to access your academic transcript or grades. Remember: you’ll need to regularly update your password (see above. Note: your password is synced via single sign-on so you won’t have to change it for each platform – you only need to change it once each time). Your Learning@Griffith access however will be shut off upon graduation.

PebblePad

You can continue to have access to your PebblePad work after you graduate, however you will need to create an ‘Alumni’ account. It’s important you do this before your Griffith account is deactivated. Follow the keeping my PebblePad account after Graduation instructions to set up an ‘Alumni’ account.

Library

Once you graduate, you will no longer have access to electronic library resources as these are only licensed for current students. Don’t fret though! You can easily join our libraries for free as an Alumni borrower which will allow you to borrow from the physical collection. You can gain access to a range of electronic databases and resources by joining your local public library, State Library of Queensland or the National Library of Australia where eligible.

*This may change in the future depending on changes in Griffith service agreements

You’re probably at uni with an ultimate aim to get employed in a particular field. With an overload of lectures, readings, assessments and the like though, you may find it easy to get caught up in the study haze and forget about the bigger picture.

We’re here to help keep you on track and ensure you develop the skills you’ll require for the future workforce.

We’ve created an Academic Skills Workbook designed to help you develop and apply academic, information and digital literacy skills, and smooth the road for your success as you move toward your exciting future careers.

As you work through the Academic Skills Workbook, you’ll also have the opportunity to incorporate the skills you’ve developed into an ePortfolio. This means you can document your credentials and skills online, and even create folios targeted to particular audiences, such as employers, to showcase your skills.

If you’re a commencing student, you’ll probably want to start at the beginning and work through the contents. Continuing students, you may like to jump to specific areas to revise and further develop your skills.

The Academic Skills Workbook is accessible via PebblePad. You can view our online guides if you need any help in getting started using PebblePad.

You did it! Those years of hard work, study, red-bull/coffee fuelled nights working on assignments and those awful 8 am lectures are now over. You’ve graduated! Now what? Well, you’re probably busy celebrating! But once that’s calmed down, you may wonder what happens to your Griffith access once you’ve spread your wings.

Let us give you the lowdown.

Griffith computers and WiFi
Your access to our computers and WiFi is based upon what’s called your ‘affiliation’. From the day you graduate, you’ll no longer be affiliated as a student, and therefore will not have an active student account. This means you’ll no longer be able to log on to our computers or use our WiFi.

H Drive
Just like your access to our computers, you’ll lose access to your H Drive following graduation, so make sure you save a copy of anything important beforehand! Content will remain on your H Drive however, so if you’re planning to come back to do some post-grad study, no need to worry about your H Drive being wiped! Conversely, if you have not heeded our advice of being organised and forgot to grab something important off your H Drive, you can log a webform to request the contents of your H Drive to be emailed to you.

Student mail and Google Drive
You retain access to your Student Gmail and Google Drive after you graduate*. Don’t get caught out though – we still require you to update your password every six months (IT security is important, guys!). If you forget to do this you won’t be able to log in, however it’s an easy fix – visit our Passwords webpage to reset your password.

Learning@Griffith and myGriffith
You’ll retain access to myGriffith for life, so you can log back in at any time to access your academic transcript or grades. Remember: you’ll need to regularly update your password (see above. Note: your password is synced via single sign-on so you won’t have to change it for each platform – you only need to change it once each time). Your Learning@Griffith access however will be shut off upon graduation.

Pebblepad
You can continue to have access to your PebblePad work after you graduate, however you will need to create an ‘Alumni’ account. It’s important you do this before your Griffith account is deactivated. Follow the keeping my PebblePad account after Graduation instructions to set up an ‘Alumni’ account.

Library
Once you graduate, you will no longer have access to electronic library resources as these are only licenced for current students. Don’t fret though! You can easily join our libraries for free as an Alumni borrower which will allow you to borrow from the physical collection. You can gain access a range of electronic databases and resources by joining your local public library, State Library of Queensland or the National Library of Australia where eligible.

*This may change in the future depending on changes in Griffith service agreements

If not, let us enlighten you. In fact, there might even be some sweet $$moola$$ in it for you!

Enter the About Me Challenge listed below and you could win gift cards, coffee vouchers and PebblePad gifts.

PebblePad is a platform to collect, curate, create, communicate and share achievements, personal capabilities and professional skills via an electronic portfolio like Katherine, Rebecca and Sophie have.

Using PebblePad throughout your degree provides a wonderful opportunity to create an online portfolio where you can record your learning, achievements, skills and experiences and experiences gained during your time at Griffith on a digital platform that’s easy to update as you go.

You’ll be able to showcase your skills, what you have learnt, and what you have created, when looking for employment.

But step one is getting started.

Learning Futures are currently running a competition to help you stay ahead of the game, and learn how to use PebblePad so that when you do use it in a course you’ll already be comfortable with it: the About Me Challenge.

When
Now – Week 9 of Trimester 3 (12 January 2018)

What
There are two challenges. For Challenge 1, open up PebblePad and create an About Me portfolio that includes:

A Welcome page (Who am I?)

Curricular goals (Why am I at Griffith?)

Co-curricular and extracurricular activities (What do I do outside of class?)

For a chance to win even more prizes, why not continue on with Challenge 2? This includes:

Creating an ‘Aspirational Me in a Minute’ video

Reflection on your journey so far at Griffith, touching on progress on your goals from Challenge 1

Using the blog tool in PebblePad to tell us about an experience at Griffith that is helping you progress towards your career

On 26 October 2017, you have a chance to join the workshops on Nathan and Gold Coast campuses. Starting at 8:45am, the three workshops are spread over the day and you can arrange for a Library tour at the front desk of any Library. In fact, anytime during orientation week, you can ask at your Library’s front desk of a tour! No need to book the workshops or the tour.